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Pixurvival is a pixelated top-down  mega sandbox.

You have two ways to enjoy the game:

  • Play the game, solo, or with friends, with the included "Vanilla" content or with other player creations. In various game modes such as cooperative survival, team battle, in a procedurally generated map.
  • Create your own Content Pack, thanks to the intuitive (but ugly) editor, and share your own universe, playable with your own game mode.

With the editor, you can import your own tiny images, and set almost everything: items, crafts, spells, map elements, creatures, including their AIs, without any IT skills.

The game is focused on both multiplayer and solo, farming, surviving, combat mechanics, and more things in the future (RPG, factory...). It is already ready for "survival" game modes, beat 'em up, battle royale-like and more!

The included "Vanilla" content, was made with the content pack editor itself, it has for main role to showcase what it is possible to do, and makes the game playable "as is", with game modes including cooperative survival and battle royale.

How to play

  • The game requires the Java client (version 8 or later), if you don't have it, you can download it here (or use any other alternative JRE).
  • Unzip the archive somewhere, and run pixurvival.jar, that's it!

Refer to the page Controls and commands to learn controls and optionally the available commands. Some control keys are shown in the in-game UI as a reminder, in yellow. You can also see and change all the control keys in the pause menu of the game (by pressing ESCAPE).

How to play together

If you simply want to play with friends, you can use the "Host & Play" button of the multiplayer menu, share your IP address shown in the screen to your friends, they will be able to join your game using the "Join" button of the multiplayer menu, using your IP address.
Important note: If you have an intermediate router between your PC and your internet router, the IP shown in the Host & Play menu will be the wrong one, and you will probably have to setup port forwarding manually.

If you want to run a dedicated server, do as follow:

  • Open a command prompt, and set the current directory to the installation directory (where you unzipped the game). (fast way for Windows: Shift key + Right click inside the installation folder -> then choose "Open command window here")
  • In the command prompt, run the following command: java -jar server.jar
  • If you want another port number than the default 7777, for example 8888, then run instead: java -jar server.jar port=8888
  • You can now connect to the server in the multiplayer menu of the game, using the IP address of the machine and the port.
  • All player and the server must have the exact same content pack you choose to play in the contentPacks/ folder.

Known bug: Some players experience a black and empty world when starting a multiplayer game, to solve this, quit the game and reconnect to the server, with the exact same name.

How to create your own content

If you have creativity to express, you can create your own content with the editor. The editor is intended to be intuitive, but there is too much to say to for this page, refer to the tutorial Getting started with the ContentPack editor. If you want to customize the procedurally map generation,  read this tutorial.


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Is there a way to turn off those annoying ninja pigs?

I fixed it. Yaaay making mods for the game is so much fun :)

Is there a gameplay video around?

I don't think so.

i killed both dragon- goffy AHHHHHH, there should be an end of game, the wood puppet friend is to weak, even when i have the best stuff the gang of pigs still can kill me, the gold rings should be beter

Thanks for suggestions, I'll take that into account. Did you get the last version? There is an "end of game boss" and few more late game stuff.

ah, i was play in alpha 12c, probably not latest version, and multiplayer in this game its just lan joining system there should be a global servers

Well, i mean, global servers are costly to maintain. I guess there might be something in the far future...? I believe it really depends on how much money the developer will make

agreed

the person might just be 11 year old probably

hmm why does this sound like you are 11...

* Genre
This game is mainly a survival-sandbox game, where you have to not die of hunger and keep your character fresh!
* Content
The main game, vanilla as you call it, has large variety of things to do. But the main thing is the content pack editor! This one is just beauty... not in terms of looks, but in terms of how much content it has!
* Limitations
Limits in this game are pretty minor, mainly you are only restricted by your imagination, so have fun!
* Overall ratings by me (not official btw)
Gameplay - 7/10
Graphics - 6/10
Not much else to say :/
Oh and BTW, this is just my opinion! Everybody is different!
So have fun! :p

Dude, no rating is "official": every rating is just a bunch of dudes sharing opinions

yeah but I just shared mine...

Android version please. This game seem promising and it will be good if it have android version

I think the game is possibly dead

Join the Discord, things are kicking up again

😉

50/50

get a computer

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the game is good but there is no much setting and the game is hard after do a randomized spawn after dying  the crafting is bad and do more  buildable things with good enemies after all thx for the game because she is working with 32 bit and low pcs

next time learn what punctuation means, OK?

HOW TO PLAY

download java player first

you added java

wha?

wat

you need rar to im think

is there a way to edit the item descriptions in content pack editor? feels kinda weird having a custom item in-game but have no cool quirky text to describe it or its abilities.

Yes you can, in the top menu : content pack -> translations, you will find entries to fill for your item  🙂

Русские символы не поддерживаются

so what

rotmg

Really cool game, the controls are simple, mediocre but effective UI, costum content support and it even has multiplayer!
My only complain is that there is no explanation about the progress of the game until you get a very specific material... and there is also no knockback making it hard for you to survive the very first day looking for resources
Other than that this looks very cool as a game prototype and would love to see more versions of this in the future

Agree.

this game is just as good as you want it to be, if want it to be bad it will be absolutely terrible the worst game ever, but i don't then it's  pretty decent

It's more than decent if you got creativity and patience.

hola no encuentro el ejecutable jaja y no se como jugar espero su respuesta

Download the zip file, unzip it, and run pixurvival.jar. you should have java installed

tengo java pero no lo encuentro

hola lo solucione no se por que mi computadora izo que se convirtiera en un archivo de winrar lo cambie a java ya esta

hola no e si podras saber lo que pongo pero pedo jugarlo con amigos? osea con hamachi

Hello, yes you can, never tried with Hamachi but it should work

(it does)

simply excellent stuff

Thanks!

Agreed.

I like this

This would be a great mobile game

I thought about that, but the problem is the sizing, things are very small, and zooming in would risk to destroy the player experience by an unpleasant feeling of "blindness". Maybe there is a solution but i haven't found it yet.

let the player zoom and out to see more or less?

Too hard for now to make.

No, get a computer! >:(

Very good game, its have very big potential.

I like it a lot.

Thank you !

Working on this potential :)

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This game is fun to play and the control scheme isn't crazy like some other games making it a fun experience.But i have been having problems where it won't boot the application when using openJDK.

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Thanks for your comment and your report! I have an idea of what's going wrong with a third party lib.

It requires Oracle Java right? just want to get it working on my Ubuntu computer.

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Yep, version 8 or later, sorry about that ^^'

Edit: I tried to run the game with the Open JDK 13 and it worked, which version of the jdk did you used?

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I used OJDK 8 9 11

Edit Just tried to use 14 as well so it only works with 13?

Edit 2: I also tried 13 right now so it might be a problem with my computer

Link to error meesage: https://shrib.com/?v=nc#DownyWoodpecker5G9Q2eV

Yes it seems to be a problem with your computer, the error message "Inconsistency detected by ld.so" have something to deal with a corrupted library file in your installation 😮

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Great little game. It reminds me a lot of Minicraft, (the 2D Minecraft styled game Notch made during a game jam in 2011). It's a simple little top down game where you try to survive as long as you can.

It's quick to pick up and play in contrast to Minecraft and other games like it that require a larger time investment. It feels reminiscent of a retro arcade game, the only goal is to survive as long as you can. Your "score" is your total survival time. It might evolve from this as time goes on but for now if you want a simple, pick up and play experience in a randomly generated world ala Minecraft, you'll enjoy this game.

It even comes with mod tools out of the box to make your own mods. I made my own custom player sprite in a matter of minutes with the mod tools bundled with the game, but you can tweak just about every aspect of the game with them. These tools are a great addition and definitely add a lot replayability to the game.

Custom Sprite
Custom Sprite

The game also runs great on low end PCs. I have a really low end machine, an HP Stream 14, and it runs on it without any performance issues at all. I've also experienced no crashes or bugs yet, even in this early build of the game. I'd recommend this to anyone looking for a survival sandbox game without the huge time investment. It makes a great alternative to any games like it you currently play due to the pick up and play nature.

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Big thanks! That's motivating! Lugia looks great!

Yes I've focused on performance since the beginning of the project, in fact I also use, sometimes, a very low end laptop to develop the game, and yeah I'm always surprised to see how lite is the game! The fact that I made my own custom engine is probably the main explanation.